Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans (Updated and Revised)

Ronald T. Takaki

Nov 2012 · eBookIt.com

About this ebook

In an extraordinary blend of narrative history, personal recollection, & oral testimony, the author presents a sweeping history of Asian Americans. He writes of the Chinese who laid tracks for the transcontinental railroad, of plantation laborers in the canefields of Hawaii, of "picture brides" marrying strangers in the hope of becoming part of the American dream. He tells stories of Japanese Americans behind the barbed wire of U.S. internment camps during World War II, Hmong refugees tragically unable to adjust to Wisconsin's alien climate & culture, & Asian American students stigmatized by the stereotype of the "model minority." This is a powerful & moving work that will resonate for all Americans, who together make up a nation of immigrants from other shores.

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About the author

Ronald Takaki was professor of Ethnic Studies at Berkeley for more than two decades. The grandson of Japanese immigrant plantation laborers in Hawaii, he had a Ph.D. in American history from Berkeley. Takaki's approach in his scholarhship is truly comparative and multi-cultural. Author of a dozen books in American social history, his A DIFFERENT MIRROR was hailed by Publisher's Weekly as :"a brilliant revisionist history of America that is likely to become a classic of multicultural studies.":